The new No Kid Hungry survey shows nine out of 10 teachers agree that breakfast is extremely or very important for academic achievement. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Tyler WiardGuest Commentary

I work closely with Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign, a national nonprofit working to end childhood hunger in America by connecting kids to the healthy food they need to learn and grow. The organization recently released the findings of a nationwide survey of educators, which found that three out of four K-8 public school teachers and principals see kids who regularly come to school hungry because they aren’t getting enough to eat at home.

As a chef and father, it pains me to know many children enter the classroom too hungry to learn. Fortunately, there is a solution: school breakfast programs.

The new No Kid Hungry survey shows nine out of 10 teachers agree that breakfast is extremely or very important for academic achievement. However, of the more than 21 million low-income kids in the U.S. who rely on a free or reduced-price school lunch, only half – about 11 million – currently participate in their school breakfast programs, even though they qualify.Read more…

Vincent Carroll is The Denver Post's editorial page editor. He has been writing commentary on politics and public policy in Colorado since 1982 and was originally with the Rocky Mountain News, where he was also editor of the editorial pages until that newspaper gave up the ghost in 2009.

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